But maybe PC game sales are slow because not everyone is jumping to upgrade their hardware every so often? WoW plays on my 2 year old emachine with no problems, but If I try to play something like F.E.A.R it doesn't work. As much as I would like to try out that kind of game, it just makes me want to stick to WoW. In fact most MMO's play on older hardware just fine. Maybe the gaming companies could focus less on realistic mega video card games. And MMO's also don't have to worry about piracy much. Of course not everyone plays MMO's, I just keep noticing non-MMO companies complaining that this or that is killing PC games the more MMO's make the news with subscription numbers. Thanks.
as someone already pointed out, it's a lot like real life. if someone can buy the gold and not have to work for it in game like you (whoever) do then you better get ready to deal with that in reality. i work only 40 hours a week...so if i can buy some gold here and there instead of spending the time i DO have to play farming for gold, i think i will buy instead.
you can give all the excuses you want about why it's bad, but it ends up sounding like you (whoever again) are bitter that some people are able to chose the buy way instead of the grind way. if you want to talk about why it's so "unfair" that some people can buy some gold and you can't, maybe you should take a look at why you can't buy the gold yourself...
this isn't meant as a troll or a flame. no comments about basements and parents.i am just really tired of hearing about this. if you can't afford it don't hate on the people that can, because that's how life works. if you know a way around things being unfair, let me know kk? so again...why is this an issue?
oh that's right! it's because the MMOG companies don't sell the gold or credits or whatever themselves.i know one game does it now (i don't remember which one sorry) but that's it. IGE just seems to be stepping in where most of these companies failed to themselves.
My sister picked up wow 2 weeks ago. When she was told by a friend that you could buy gold for it, her reaction was "well that makes sense to me."
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But maybe PC game sales are slow because not everyone is jumping to upgrade their hardware every so often? WoW plays on my 2 year old emachine with no problems, but If I try to play something like F.E.A.R it doesn't work. As much as I would like to try out that kind of game, it just makes me want to stick to WoW. In fact most MMO's play on older hardware just fine. Maybe the gaming companies could focus less on realistic mega video card games. And MMO's also don't have to worry about piracy much. Of course not everyone plays MMO's, I just keep noticing non-MMO companies complaining that this or that is killing PC games the more MMO's make the news with subscription numbers. Thanks.
as someone already pointed out, it's a lot like real life. if someone can buy the gold and not have to work for it in game like you (whoever) do then you better get ready to deal with that in reality. i work only 40 hours a week...so if i can buy some gold here and there instead of spending the time i DO have to play farming for gold, i think i will buy instead.
you can give all the excuses you want about why it's bad, but it ends up sounding like you (whoever again) are bitter that some people are able to chose the buy way instead of the grind way. if you want to talk about why it's so "unfair" that some people can buy some gold and you can't, maybe you should take a look at why you can't buy the gold yourself...
this isn't meant as a troll or a flame. no comments about basements and parents.i am just really tired of hearing about this. if you can't afford it don't hate on the people that can, because that's how life works. if you know a way around things being unfair, let me know kk? so again...why is this an issue?
oh that's right! it's because the MMOG companies don't sell the gold or credits or whatever themselves.i know one game does it now (i don't remember which one sorry) but that's it. IGE just seems to be stepping in where most of these companies failed to themselves.
My sister picked up wow 2 weeks ago. When she was told by a friend that you could buy gold for it, her reaction was "well that makes sense to me."
me too!
This whole article, write up, whatever is a big huge troll!